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Boot loader

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ra_sriniketan Original post #1
May 14, 2006 at 12:16 PM
Got win2000 professional & XP professional.Recently XP crashed but at the boot time i can see both the OSs as a list.I want to remove winXP from the boot loading list.How?
mod-the-pc
mod-the-pc #2
May 14, 2006 at 3:29 PM
Just remove the unwanted entry from the file boot.ini in your root drive.
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sanju #3
May 14, 2006 at 3:48 PM
just run msconfig from the run menu
from the general menu
select use original boot.ini
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ra_sriniketan #4
May 14, 2006 at 7:02 PM
Win2k professional give me the path of boot.ini,msconfig not running
Vishal Gupta
Vishal Gupta #5
May 14, 2006 at 7:26 PM
In C:\ drive, there will be a HIDDEN & Read-Only file named "Boot.ini".
Open this file and delete the line saying "Microsoft Windows XP Professional" (or something like that).
Make sure that the 3rd line saying Default= contains the path of Windows 2000 professional.
Now save the file and reboot to see the changes! :)
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balu_c #6
May 14, 2006 at 8:00 PM
Open your winnt folder under C: drive and find "boot.ini" file and remove entry for win xp and set default os to win2K this shoukd fix your problem
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hermit #7
May 15, 2006 at 5:20 AM
click--->Start ; RT click MY COMPUTER--->properties---->ADVANCE----->Start up and Recovery----> EDIT

DELETE THE OS NO LONGER EXISTS


HERMIT
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Ramakrishnan #8
May 15, 2006 at 1:02 PM
boot with winxp cd and at the recovery console type fixmbr. this may help
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ra_sriniketan #9
May 15, 2006 at 8:15 PM
Strangely could not locate the boot.ini file after unhiding the files in C: and could not find the EDIT button in strat up & recovery.
samrulez
samrulez #10
May 16, 2006 at 11:44 AM
just edit the boot ini found in the root of the c:\ just remove the line that says::: multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /NOEXECUTE=OPTIN /FASTDETECT
Kniwor
Kniwor #11
May 16, 2006 at 12:30 PM
ra_sriniketan said:
Strangely could not locate the boot.ini file after unhiding the files in C: and could not find the EDIT button in strat up & recovery.
Click to expand...

what is your boot partition.. look in the partition manager....
and boot.ini will be in that partition...
47shailesh
47shailesh #12
May 16, 2006 at 12:50 PM
Proper way is that what HERMIT had suggested
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ra_sriniketan #13
May 16, 2006 at 5:36 PM
Win 2k is on the C: & Win XP in D:.How to see the partition manager?
vysakh
vysakh #14
May 16, 2006 at 6:35 PM
ra_sriniketan said:
Strangely could not locate the boot.ini file after unhiding the files in C: and could not find the EDIT button in strat up & recovery.
Click to expand...
in folder options, there is an option to hide the system files and folders. uncheck it and then you can see this file.
it mite be a read only file, so u will have to change the attributes.